Utilities company Singapore Power (SP) and the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) will set aside S$30 million over the next five years to develop solutions for meeting the Republic's future energy needs. The S$30 million, a co-investment by both parties, will be used by a new Centre of Excellence for Energy Development and Piloting launched by SP on Thursday (Apr 2). The centre will drive efforts to ...

Japan's ruling party on Tuesday urged the government to push for a return to nuclear power in deliberations on the best energy mix, which is likely to be opposed by a public wary about atomic energy in the wake of the Fukushima disaster in 2011. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) said the government should boost stable "baseload" energy supplies - nuclear, coal, hydroelectric and geo ...

A SUBSIDIARY of listed Trans-Asia Oil and Energy Development Corp. has formally inaugurated a 54-megawatt (MW) wind farm in Guimaras Island. Trans-Asia Renewable Energy Corp. (TAREC) said in a statement over the weekend that it held a dedication ceremony for the San Lorenzo wind farm, marking the plant’s third month of commercial operations. The ceremony last Friday also served as the official introduction ...

Alstom, in consortium with Marubeni Corporation, has signed an agreement with the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) to supply and build the new unit at Mae Moh power plant. The total amount of the contract is €950 million in total, with Alstom’s share of the contract worth approximately €520 million. The contract will be carried out on an Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) bas ...

On Oct 2 last year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a nationwide cleanliness programme, called Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (Clean India Mission), to provide sanitation facilities to every family, including toilets, solid and liquid waste disposal systems, clean villages, and safe and adequate drinking water by 2019, as a tribute to the father of the nation on his 150th birth anniversary. The agenda is an op ...

The Nyngan solar plant in western New South Wales on Saturday began generating power into the National Electricity Market, with the first of the 25MW completed to date feeding into the Australia’s main grid. So, far 350,000 solar PV panels have been installed by First Solar, with four times that much to be completed in the coming the months to take its nominated capacity to 102MW. It is the first of two pla ...

Tajikistan's Ambassador to Pakistan, Sher Ali S Jononov on Tuesday has said that his country would be able to export 1000 megawatts of clean and cheep hydro-energy to Pakistan by 2018. While addressing a press conference here at a local hotel he said that the work on the project- Central Asia South Asia Electricity Transmission and Trade Project (CASA-1000) is underway and Pakistan would receive 1000 mw hyd ...

The southeast Asia arm of German water treatment firm, Hager + Elsaesser (H+E), has won contracts worth more than US$ 20 million in recent months. >H+E Southeast Asia's recent project wins span several countries and industries from municipal wastewater recycling in Australia to the Philippines where it is involved in water a treatment system for a power plant and a wastewater treatment plant for a solar ...

After parting ways with Elon Musk’s Tesla and taking a different road in providing alternative technologies for the future, Toyota made a big move in securing its marketing presence at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. Japan and especially Toyota are looking to use the 2020 Olympic Games as a stage for promoting its hydrogen infrastructure. Toyota has already secured its status as the first Japanese carmaker to ...

Spanish wind energy turbine maker Gamesa has retained top position for a second year in row for the highest number of grid-connected installations in India. Suzlon and Wind World India took the second and third spot respectively. The rankings were released by Danish firm Make Consulting, which analyses the wind energy market globally. In 2014, about 2,300 Mw of wind energy was added in India a growth of 27 ...